Recommendations

Here are some other online resources I’ve found useful or fun to read

AI

  • Chris Olah’s old blog posts on mechanistic interpretability, which walk through his reasoning process as he was laying out the foundations of the field.
  • Lillian Weng’s blog gives great summaries of different research topics. I particularly like her RL posts

Finance

  • I would highly recommend subscribing to Bloomberg’s Money Stuff newsletter, which is both pretty entertaining and offers some of the clearest explanations I’ve seen for how different parts of the financial system work.
  • Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast is also decent.
  • Giuseppe Paleologo is the head of research as the hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management, and his twitter is pretty good. I would also highly recommend his resource list if you want to improve at quant research.
  • There are two outdated resources that might still be worth reading: Max Dama on Automated Trading, and Richard Ruczyk’s Career Advice.
  • I’ve found state-space statistics surprisingly useful in my work, and it’s worth getting a book on this (such as this one). A quick 80-20 would be to read the Wikipedia page on Kalman filtering.

History, Geography

  • Matt Lakeman’s blog gives an overview of the history, economics, politics, and culture of different countries and then documents his own experience travelling in them.
  • ChinaTalk is a great blog for both China and AI governance.
  • The Dwarkesh Podcast’s Sarah Paine interviews cover military history in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Economics

  • Works in Progress is a substack / magazine specifically covering the development of different technologies, systems, or pieces of infrastructure (e.g., the heating system in NYC)
  • Marginal Revolution is a blog written by Tyler Cowen, an economist I like. It has good linkposts.
  • EconTalk is a podcast where a different economist is interviewed each week. Guests are hit or miss but overall decent.

Philosophy